Journey to the Savage Planet Reviews
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It’s a game of MacGuffins, so to speak—what you’re doing and why you’re doing it is inessential to the joys and the juice on offer.
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Earlier on this year, the world was treated to the wonderfully wacky Journey to the Savage Planet, a weird and engaging first-person metroidvania title with an incredible, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-inspired sense of humour. When our reviewer Leo tackled it back in January, he praised the game’s unique tone and strong emphasis on exploration. The Switch version is out now, and we’re about to find out if it manages to hold up in this less powerful hardware.
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Journey to the Savage Planet is an amazing experience of alien planetary exploration where the developer’s imaginations were allowed to paint a canvas of fun, art style, and humor that never felt forced or over the top. Once you temper expectations and remind yourself that this is a game about exploration and not an alien shoot em’ up or a fully packed RPG, you begin to realize how special this game is. The game offers 2-player co-op online which many titles like this wouldn’t even think twice about.
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Journey to the Savage Planet was such a fun way to kick off the decade, and I’m going to bring it up at the end of the year when people inevitably begin asking about the overlooked gems of 2020. If you want something light and breezy with an intoxicating collectible-based feedback loop, here you go.
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Humankind is advancing and seeking a new home beyond the stars. As a new recruit to Kindred, the 4th best interstellar exploration company, it is your job to explore your designated planet and send back data to Earth. Ill-equipped for the task ahead of you, you’ll traverse the strange planet, scan its flora and fauna, develop new tools and upgrades, and uncover the mystery of this alien world.
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You can explore a barmy new world with Journey to the Savage Planet. Here's our review!
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There's a profound sense of exploration and discovery in Journey to the Savage Planet. It's constantly motivating the player to double back and take another look at an area without ever explicitly telling them to. It's like being let into an amusement park with no lines and no rules, giving players the freedom to make their own fun whenever they need a break from an incredibly vertical, and hardly ever uninteresting, scavenger hunt for new resources and upgrades. It may not be an entire planet to explore, but it could easily fill one up.
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And that’s what makes Journey to the Savage Planet’s subtext so unsettling, and the game an unexpected autopsy of the open-world formula. This is one of hundreds of games that ask us to kill and conquer, but never question our actions. The story tells us we’re here to have fun, and supposedly save the world.
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Journey to the Savage Planet is absolutely dripping with charm and personality, but the repetitive nature of the exploration and the stiff combat hold it back from being truly great.
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Typhoon Studios has created an indie title that will capture the attention of the masses. On the surface, Journey to the Savage Planet is an attractive title based on the sci-fi and exploration elements, but it's the humor, gameplay elements and puzzle solving that pulls you in. You will be sucked into this game for hours before you know it and while you're going to die a good bit, it won't be due to punishment but rather learning what to do. Scanning and exploration are just a portion of the game but are a necessity to continue. The worlds are...
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As you fire up Journey to the Savage Planet, its theme music begins to play. With plenty of banjo and slide guitar riffs, you'll get an idea of what to expect from this game before you even push a button. It's fair to say this sci-fi action adventure isn't taking itself very seriously, but don't expect to be bowled over by its attempts at comedy.
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Journey to the Savage Planet is well worth checking out if you’re looking for something to fill the void of time you’ve got during this fairly quiet start to 2020. The sense of exploration drives you forward, the satirical comedy lands every time, and the presentation on the whole just adds to the magical sense of exploring and mapping an uncharted planet.
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Satirical and self-aware, Journey to the Savage Planet shrinks the discovery of No Man’s Sky down to a single planet that’s bonkers and brilliant - and one you’ll definitely want to visit.
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In saying all this, Journey to the Savage Planet is playing in a genre full of titans, and it’s holding its own. The quirky environments and slick traversal systems make it a pleasure to explore. While the humor doesn’t always land, it still has a charm to it. If you can find someone to go on an adventure with you, there’s a lot of entertainment to be found in this bubbly and zany little package.
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A rollicking space adventure, Journey to the Savage Planet has the smarts to make you laugh out loud while taking shots at consumerism and big business.
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Video games do exploration better than any other medium. It’s awe-inspiring to roam the sand-covered dunes in Assassin’s Creed Origins or the alien planets in No Man’s Sky. But exploration, as showcased by those two examples, often comes with an intimidating amount of scale. JOURNEY TO THE SAVAGE PLANET is keen on evoking that same sense of wonder yet in a play space that isn’t measured in square miles or the amount of planets it houses. And, through a well-paced upgrade loop and interesting world, it manages to bottle that adventuring spirit in a more digestible package.
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The first creature you encounter in Journey to the Savage Planet is the “Pufferbird”. Bouncing about like a bunny rabbit and gazing at you with big puppy dog eyes, the avian alien is positively precious…right up until the point you boot it to death.
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The Metroid Prime franchise is a rare case – a series of successful, critically-acclaimed games that somehow haven’t spawned many direct imitators. Sure, there are plenty of Metroidvania-style titles out there, but they’re mostly inspired by earlier 2D games. Metroid Prime’s unique combination of non-linear level design and first-person platforming has largely gone unreplicated, which makes the ever-receding release of Metroid Prime 4 all the harder to take. Thankfully, Typhoon Studios, a new team founded by Montreal-area devs who used to work for triple-A publishers like Ubisoft, EA, and WB Games, has stepped up to carry the Metroid Prime torch...
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Overall Journey to the Savage Planet is a lot of fun, and the open-world serves up a place for you to spend hours in.
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A short and satisfying space adventure which really is laugh out loud funny
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Ultimately, Journey to the Savage Planet is a little less savage and a little more tame. What it does, it does quite well; it's just a shame it doesn't do very much. A decent title for those that get excited at the thought of exploration, but an otherwise unremarkable experience.
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With solid mechanics, one of the most imaginative game worlds we’ve seen in a long time and a killer sense of humour, Journey to the Savage Planet is pure joy from start to finish. Considering this is the first game from developer Typhoon Studios, it’s left me really excited to see what else they can come up with.
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Journey to the Savage Planet combines a hilarious and upbeat tone with a constant sense of discovery and progression to make for a fantastic explorative experience.
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We get a lot of funny video games. We get a lot of strange games. But wacky video games are rare. Journey to the Savage Planet, a short new sci-fi first-person shooter, is, despite some flaws, wonderfully wacky.
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Journey to the Savage Planet is a satirical and colorful metroidvania that survives its corny jokes thanks to fun traversal and worthwhile exploration.
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Journey to the Savage Planet is a game with a lot of nice ideas – trying to single-handedly twist a well-worn genre into new and exciting shapes – but ultimately doesn’t quite have the courage to commit to them. There’s a lot to enjoy, particularly in its opening hours, but for all its grand ambitions, Savage Planet ultimately falls back on tired ideas to see it through to an underwhelming end. Like the ship you’re trying to repair throughout, it’s an admirable thing, but it can’t quite nail the landing.
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